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From the I can't believe they said that department...

DRM is a funny thing. I emailed Napster after seeing the Super Bowl
commercial. The question was how to use their service with a generic
memory stick player and Linux. I get an email explaining how the files
I download from them are in WMA format with Windows DRM. Then they go
on explaining how I can circumvent that protection by burning and audio
CD and ripping then converting back to MP3. A PITA to do. At the end
of the email they even suggest using a CD-RW in case I plan on doing
this a lot and their software can erase the CD-RW before buring. I bet
iTunes would have never told me these things. I already knew this
process but I just thought it funny they would tell me about it.

Actually, Microsoft also slipped up when they were explaining to users how to get their DRM WMA's on their IPod. Apparently, the microsoft website said to burn the song to a cd, and then re-rip with MP3, thus, telling everyone how to eliminate their own copy protection.